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"Oh, my dear Tolstoy, if you knew how difficult I find things and how sad I am! Take a lesson from me: do not let life slip through your fingers. May God spare you the feeling that life has passed by and at the same time has not begun yet, that everything is before you- an infinity of youth with all the fruitless emptiness of old age."